unanimously rejected the president s announcement that boosters would be approved by today for the general population. it s a tough time for president biden on other fronts. his entire domestic agenda is in jeopardy as time is running out for a deeply divided congress to pass his mega infrastructure bill. while overseas france is furious over being blind sided by the u.s. on that $60 billion submarine contract. and all the nato allies are burning from the messy withdrawal from afghanistan. the pentagon having to admit instead of isis bombers its drone strike in kabul killed ten civilians including seven children and an aid worker for a u.s. charity. a new crisis at the border with 15,000 stranded haitians living under a bridge between texas and mexico. we begin with the pfizer trial and nbc s gabe gutierrez residence in spokane, washington. this is very promising news for families, but the current covid crisis inside hospitals out where you are is intensifying. reporter
of the presidential race. go talk to meadows. got a dubious tip about voter fraud? go talk to meadows. found an outlandish twitter thread about voter rigging, go talk to meadows. meadows refers to mark meadows, former president trump s chief of staff, who is facing possible contempt charges. records of his possible communications with others are now under intense scrutiny. last week, the january 6th praenld out some of meadows text messages and revealed that some came from unnamed members of congress. here s what one of them said. yesterday, january 6th was a terrible day. we tried everything we could in our objection to the six states. i m sorry nothing worked. on this show yesterday, donald trump s former personal attorney and fixer michael cohen weighed in on meadows text messages. i think mark meadows is the dumbest a-hole on the hill, to be very honest with you. i m watching and i m seeing these 9,000 texts, e-mails, from who-to-who-to-who, and i wonder i know for
undermine u.s. democracy largely fueled by the former president and his loyalists who have hijacked and radicalized a part of the republican party. there s a reason the u.s. is considered a backsliding democracy. that is the elephant in the room as president biden kicked off a two-day global virtual summit this morning on renewing democracy at home and abroad. in his opening remarks, he called on the world s dm sis to confront the sustained and alarming challenges facing them and pointed that they are the same and alarming challenges facing the united states. here in the united states, we know as well as anyone that renewing our democracy and strengthening our democratic institutions requires constant effort. my administration is going to keep fighting to pass two critical pieces of legislation that will shore up the very foundation of american democracy, the sacred right of every person to make their voice heard through free, fair, and secure elections. we should be making
company saying the standard two-dose may not provide enough antibodies against the variant. two doses bence omicron are almost equivalent to the effectiveness against the the original variant. those are very good news. preliminary because we are waiting to see more data, more accurate data with the more accurate essays that will come in a week or two and of course more data. but so far looks like a third booster improves dramatically the efficacy. i have the best team with all the information you need to know from nbc meg tirrell, sam brock and dr. aneesh adalja. never a day i wanted you here more, meg. no one breaks that news quite like you do. explain to us what s going on with pfizer. reporter: yeah. so this was really surprisingly good news this morning. especially after we got data from south africa last night that showed after two doses you saw a 40-fold reduction in neutralizing affecting cells against omicron. this morning pfizer-biontech saying a full reconst
shared with the appropriate entities, one of which is the capitol police. the best intelligence of the world is no good if the people that need it don t have it. so i appreciate your reporting. thank you very much for your really diligent and excellent work on this. thank you, madam chair. thank you very much, senator king. on with us remotely is senator ossoff. when we spoke in june during your prior appearance before this committee, i asked you a simple but important question, which is, which individual is ultimately responsible for the security of the united states capitol complex? who is in charge? who has ultimate accountability? and that was not a question that you at that hearing, nor your colleagues who testified before the committee in february were able to answer with specificity. you acknowledge mr. bolton during that discussion at your last appearance that that was a problem, that the lack of a single individual who s accountable for and has responsibility for